Piracy in the Gulf of Guinea: Impacts to Maritime Transportation and Maritime Security
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From Politicization to Securitization of Maritime Security in the Gulf of Guinea
EU’s Energy security and trade depend, to a large extent, on sea-based transport relying on open sea lines of communication and Maritime Security. The Gulf of Guinea (GoG) region has supplied 13 per cent of oil and six per cent of total EU28 consumption. Between 2003 and January 2015, piracy in the GoG accounted for 31 per cent of attacks (616 of 1,965) in African waters. With that proportion o...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Asian Development
سال: 2018
ISSN: 2377-9594
DOI: 10.5296/jad.v4i2.13124